VALLE, MOSES DAVID BEN SAMUEL
- VALLE, MOSES DAVID BEN SAMUEL
- VALLE, MOSES DAVID BEN SAMUEL (1696–1777), Italian physician
and kabbalist. Valle was born in Padua. In his youth he wrote in Italian
a book against Christianity entitled I Sette Giorni della
Verita, but his major field was Kabbalah. He was considered to
possess spiritual powers and receive mystical revelations. He is
mentioned many times in documents relating to the circle of Moses Ḥayyim
Luzzatto, of which he was one of the most important members. In this
group, Valle seems to have been considered the Messiah. After Luzzatto
left for Amsterdam, Valle became the leader of the Padua circle, which
was not maintained for a long time. Most of his life he spent in
seclusion, studying; he never occupied a rabbinic post, although he
served as the cantor in the Sephardi synagogue. He wrote many
disquisitions on kabbalistic subjects and other matters. From extant
works found in his handwriting, it is possible to fix his date of birth
and many details about his career. From all his works, only 70
kabbalistic interpretations on the last verse of the Torah were
published (at the end of Luzzatto's megillat setarim , Warsaw,
1889). His rich legacy of nearly 20,000 pages is as yet unexplored.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Ghirondi-Neppi, 247; J. Almanzi, in: Kerem Ḥemed, 3 (1838),
130; S.D. Luzzatto, in: HB, 6 (1863), 49–51; I. Tishby,
in: Sefer Yovel le-Y. Baer (1960), 384; idem, Netivei
Emunah u-Minut (1964), 193–6; M. Benayahu, in: Sefunot,
5 (1961), 300–16.
(Gershom Scholem)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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